I specifically have two automations that I run as I’m getting in bed (manually, either through a widget on my phone or via voice command): one for if I’m the last person in bed and one of my wife is still up and hasn’t come to bed yet so it doesn’t turn out all the lights on her.

It literally happened

To be fair…

It was about 12 years, but that is a relatively short time. It’s about the same time we have to deal with Trump from the beginning of his first term to the end of his second, which is also an eternity (assuming that doesn’t become a literal eternity). And the First Republic kinda sucked for a ton of reasons, but it was at least technically a Republic.

But also one of those reasons is that the Republic itself was at war with basically the entirety of Europe already, which is why Napoleon was able to rise to power in the first place: he wasn’t just a dude that waltzed in and said “make me emperor”, he was the hero of the army of Italy and basically was the major (unexpected) reason that France was able to defeat Austria.

Anyway, the point is that we don’t have a Napoleon waiting in the wings to just snatch up power if it came to, say, Jacobin actions, but Napoleon took time to emerge, so we’d have at least a few years of guillotines first…

Public defenders exist already and they’re government-employed lawyers with the express intention of arguing against the government.

Frustratingly the article does not say, but based on the other numbers in the article, I think they are talking in terms of percentage, likely 15-20%

It should be Ron Howard!

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He’s just imitating his hero

I don’t care that he has no rizz, I care that he continually takes credit for other people’s accomplishments that he had no hand in, and when he does take an active role, the output of those people becomes actively worse.

But, I suppose you did sum that up in “insufferable jackass”

From the Passion narrative according to John (John 18)

29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”

30 “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”

31 Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”

“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected.

Literally the exact same method that the Jewish religious authorities used to try to convince the Romans to execute Jesus because they weren’t allowed to execute people.

(Note: this is not meant to be antisemitic, just contextual, though the Jews’ role in the execution of Jesus has been and is still used to justify antisemitism)

Whoops! 😂

I think you’re the one who needs to work on your reading comprehension. The air quotes around “okay” clearly indicate that they think it is NOT okay.

An ark is a boat, an arc is a curve

We all know something is wrong with Timmy

Sure, but he’s Baptist, so he doesn’t want more Catholics either.

Ah, he’s been alive longer than the USSR lasted, not that he’s been alive since before it was founded.

Trump is older than the USSR? Wouldn’t that make him like 103?

I was really curious who the third would be and I didn’t see it in the article, so I found the opinion and here’s the full list:

• Sotomayor wrote the majority option
• Barrett wrote a concurring opinion
• Alito dissented with Gorsuch
• Thomas separately dissented (and starts the dissent by agreeing with Alito, so he just wanted to be even more of a douche)

Qatar is definitely my guess. They’re one of the few nations that are friendly with both Iran and the US.